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Category: Kids

  • Nickelodeon gets new logo

    MUMBAI: Nickelodeon will unveil a new logo this fall, replacing the channel‘s present ‘splat‘ identity that was launched in 1984. Also, Nick at Nite, Nicktoon, Nick Jr. and TeenNick will use lowercase similar logos.

    “The decision to streamline the network identities came after putting all the channels‘ logos on the same business card and decided it looked like a mess,” said Nick and MTV Networks‘ Kids and Family Group prexy Cyma Zarghami to Variety.


    “We wanted to clean it up and allow Nick to be the stamp on all of these channels,” she added.

  • Cartoon Networks partners with InComm for FusionFall

    MUMBAI: Kids entertainment channel Cartoon Network (CN) has partnered with InComm wherein the latter will distribute prepaid cards for CN‘s AAA, browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), FusionFall.













    Said Turner Animated Young Adults and Kids Media group SVP digital Paul Condolora, “Partnering with InComm is a key component of our strategy to offer as many opportunities as possible to our audiences to enjoy the full benefits of FusionFall.”




    “Combining InComm‘s robust relationships with the top U.S. retailers with our dynamic MMOG will be a big win for us,” Condolora added.


    FusionFall is a re-imagined and futuristic three-dimensional adventure set during an alien invasion of the Cartoon Network universe. Thrust into the role of a cartoon boy or girl, players will team up with other players and Cartoon Network characters to visit more than 60 different playable areas and defend the Cartoon Network universe from an alien invasion of epic proportions.

  • ‘Glenn Martin’ to debut on Nickelodeon from 17 August

    MUMBAI: Kids entertainment channel Nickelodeon is set to launch Glenn Martin, DDS, the first television series to come from Michael Eisner‘s Tornante Animation, from 17 August.


    Following the launch, the series will run through 18-20 August at 8 pm and will later be moved to Mondays for the same slot.


    Said Nickelodeon executive VP for development and original programming Marjorie Cohn, “The collaboration with Michael Eisner offers a new twist on the classic family sitcom that tweens and their parents can both enjoy. We look forward to debut this series and introduce viewers to Nick at Nite‘s new evening line-up.”


    Prior to television launch, viewers can visit the series website, GlennMartinDDS.com,featuring original content, message boards, video clips, downloadables and actor biographies.

  • Jibi George takes up Jiggy’s role at Cartoon Network













    MUMBAI: Jibi George has been given the mandate to head Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE),


    The division was earlier being spearheaded by Jiggy George.




    Indiantelevision.com had earlier reported that Jiggy George would end his stint as executive director India and South Asia at CNE on 31 July.

  • ‘In the Night Garden’ sells 1 mn DVDs globally













    MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, has disclosed that the children‘s show In the Night Garden has sold over 1.2 million DVDs globally.


    The programme reaches audiences in 34 countries.




    The show is about a magical picture-book place that exists between sleeping and waking in a child‘s imagination. Words, rhymes and music carry young viewers through a happy world of loveable characters and nursery rhyme nonsense.


    In the Night Garden‘s largest DVD-buying audience comes from the UK, where over 9,00,000 units have been sold till date. BBC Worldwide predicts that this year will bring the millionth sale within the UK.


    Elsewhere, the programme has sold nearly 70,000 units in Spain following its launch on Spanish broadcaster TVE in September 2008. The debut In the Night Garden DVD in Spain went straight to number one in the children‘s charts as did the first Canadian release where it held on to the top spot in the children‘s DVD charts for three consecutive weeks. Canadian sales of the DVD now exceed 11,000 units.

  • Jiggy George to end stint at Cartoon Network on 31 July

    MUMBAI: Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) executive director India and South Asia Jiggy George is quitting the organisation.













    Joining Turner Network in 2001 as senior manager, George will end his tenure at CNE on 31 July.




    Said Turner International India VP – entertainment networks Monica Tata, “George, after nearly eight years with Turner, has decided to move on to pursue new opportunities. His last working day is 31 July.”


    George set-up and spearheaded the licensing & merchandising division of Cartoon Network in India. In 2008, he was given additional charge to set up a theatrical division to leverage the power of Turner channels, consumer products and new media businesses to market these films effectively in India and South Asia.


    Prior to Cartoon Network, George was with MTV India for four years as marketing manager.

  • US Senate Committee holds hearing on Children’s Television Act






    MUMBAI: The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a sub-committee hearing on Rethinking the Children‘s Television Act for a Digital Media Age.The panelists were Sesame Workshop CEO and president Gary Knell, Ion Media Networks executive VP John Lawson, Georgetown University director, Children’s Digital Media Center Dr. Sandra Calvert, Nickelodeon and MTVN Family Group president Cyma Zarghami and Common Sense Media CEO James Steyer.
    The committee chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV noted that there were two needs here. First, there was a need to provide quality media content for children and secondly, there was a need to protect children from harmful content.

    “To provide and protect. we must have both. This is what the Committee would like to explore today. How well the Children’s Television Act has worked and how it can be updated to reflect the new digital media market,” said Rockefeller.

  • BBC Worldwide sells ‘3rd & Bird!’ to Canada’s Treehouse channel






    MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has sold the UK animated pre-school series 3rd & Bird! to Canada‘s Treehouse channel.

    Targeted at children between 3 and 5 years, Treehouse will premiere the series on 7 September at 6.25 pm. It will subsequently air weekdays at 6.25 pm, Saturdays at 8.30 am and Sundays at 5 pm.


    3rd & Bird! is 50 x 10 episodes with one double episode -a 20 minute Christmas special.


    The deal was brokered by BBC Worldwide Canada VP programme sales Linda Steele, BBC Worldwide Americas children‘s and children‘s business development Susanna Pollack and Corus Entertainment Treehouse and Discovery director of programming Brenda Nietupski.



    Created in photo-puppetry animation, each episode of the series that includes music and songs revolves around the lives of ‘Samuel‘ and ‘Muffin Lovebird‘ and their friend ‘Rudy‘, who live, learn and play on the branches of a beautiful old tree.


    Currently, Fisher-Price is the master toy licensee for 3rd & Bird!. Under the multi-year master toy license, Fischer-Price has global rights excluding Asia to develop pre-school, infant and toddler toys.

  • Cartoon Network acquires MixMaster2














    MUMBAI: Kids entertainment channel Cartoon Network has acquired the cable and satellite rights of Sunwoo Entertainment‘s MixMaster2 to broadcast the property across 25 Asia-Pacific countries.



    MixMaster2, slated for launch in 2010, will feature 40 brand-new episodes that follow the adventures of 13-year-old Ditt.


    The series is based on the MixMaster massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

  • A Squared Ent partners with AOL to create & distribute webisodes for kids

    MUMBAI: A Squared Entertainment has teamed up with AOL to unveil a new slate of purpose-driven webisodes for children. The programmes will feature personalities such as Warren Buffett, Gisele Bündchen, Martha Stewart and the late Carl Sagan with an aim to teach kids about finance, the environment, creativity, and science.A Squared, working in collaboration with AOL, will produce a season‘s worth of 3-5 minute webisodes involving each celebrity that will premiere on AOL.


    AOL will also work with A Squared to distribute the webisodes more broadly on the web.


    In addition, AOL is working with MGX Lab to create an interactive world for each property, with games and activities to support and extend the webisode content.


    Secret Millionaire‘s Club, featuring Warren Buffett, and GiGi & the Green Team, featuring Gisele Bündchen, are scheduled to debut on AOL this fall. Little Martha, featuring Martha Stewart, and Kosmos, inspired by Carl Sagan and created by Cosmos co-author Ann Druyan, will launch in spring 2010.